If you are looking to grow your career and move into the leadership space, either as a manager or director or whatever, here’s a lesson I’ve learned that I’ve never read in a book or heard in a training class. This actually probably applies to everyone, but is of particular interest if you are a […]
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Have you ever had someone tell you that? Or some variation thereof? Frequently, as technology leaders, we are driving innovation at organizations, and with innovation comes change. For a person who knows their job really well, knows all their tasks, and exactly how to do them (even if […]
A recent discussion has come up in my organization. Three years ago we embarked on a “grand experiment”. We re-org’d into 2-pizza service/agile teams, committed to Scrum and DevOps and Agile, trained and hired, and sally forth! For some teams, this was a natural fit and it worked great. There were a couple of in-house […]
When do you know its time to move on? There was a ten-year period in my career where I changed jobs 4 or 5 times. I started to notice a pattern: Year 1: Figure out what is actually going on in the company, and how to do your job Year 2: Try to institute a […]
If you want your company to be agile, then your organizational chart is critically important to your ability to execute. (This is assuming you believe in Boyd’s Law: “Speed of iteration beats quality of iteration”.) But why does the Org Chart matter? What does that have to do with an organization’s agility? Let’s start with […]
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